Things 3 for iOS, Apple Watch, and Mac

Things 3, the long-anticipated update to Cultured Code’s popular to-do app, is here with an all-new design and some delightful tricks up its sleeve.

The most clever of these tricks is the new Magic Plus Button, which not only lets you create new tasks like you’d expect, but can also be dragged to different places in the UI to perform actions contextually. In this comprehensive review, Ryan Christoffel of MacStories lists a few ways you can use the button:

Tap and drag the button into your list of projects to create a new project. Drop it into a list of tasks in Today to create a new task in that exact spot. Drop it into the Inbox icon that appears in the lower left corner to create the task in your Inbox. And, my personal favorite, when viewing your Upcoming list, drag and drop the button on to the day when that task needs to be acted on, and you’ve just assigned its start date.

Also new in Things 3 is a section on the Today screen called “This Evening” that helps you easily distinguish daytime and nighttime tasks. As someone who tends to run errands during the day and get my writing work done at night, this is a nice feature.

From left to right: The new calendar integration for the “Today” section, the “Jump Start” popover, and the Magic Plus Button in use.